Comparative politics

The first systematic account of how structures of justice led to the emergence of representative institutions and state-formation in Western Europe.

This book explores the secret police organizations of East Asian dictators: their origins, operations, and effects on ordinary citizens'' lives.

This book explores the secret police organizations of East Asian dictators: their origins, operations, and effects on ordinary citizens'' lives.

Focusing on distribution of risk within societies, this book presents a parsimonious theory of social policy emergence, divergence, and change.

Focusing on distribution of risk within societies, this book presents a parsimonious theory of social policy emergence, divergence, and change.

Using interview evidence and archival data from Argentina, the book examines why and when women collaborate in Congress.

Using interview evidence and archival data from Argentina, the book examines why and when women collaborate in Congress.

Demonstrates why elections fail to promote democracy when countries lack democratic experience and are held during civil conflict.

This book analyzes why some dictators find it in their self-interest to curb corruption.

This book analyzes why some dictators find it in their self-interest to curb corruption.

Demonstrates why elections fail to promote democracy when countries lack democratic experience and are held during civil conflict.

Who gets electricity in the developing world?

Who gets electricity in the developing world?

This book explains why women''s rights are improving more rapidly in post-conflict countries in Africa than elsewhere on the continent.

A passionate examination of why international anti-corruption fails to deliver results and how we should understand and build good governance.

This book explains why women''s rights are improving more rapidly in post-conflict countries in Africa than elsewhere on the continent.

A passionate examination of why international anti-corruption fails to deliver results and how we should understand and build good governance.

Introduces the European Union through the lens of comparative politics.

Using network analysis and quantitative and qualitative data, this book explains why candidates use clientelistic strategies to mobilize poor voters.

Using network analysis and quantitative and qualitative data, this book explains why candidates use clientelistic strategies to mobilize poor voters.

Introduces the European Union through the lens of comparative politics.

This book situates comparative-historical analysis within contemporary debates in political science and explores the latest theoretical and conceptual advances.

This volume compares international and institutional accounts as alternative perspectives to explain why elections fail to meet international standards.

This book situates comparative-historical analysis within contemporary debates in political science and explores the latest theoretical and conceptual advances.

This volume compares international and institutional accounts as alternative perspectives to explain why elections fail to meet international standards.

This book describes the foundations of stateless societies, why and how states emerge, and the basis of political obligation.

This book describes the foundations of stateless societies, why and how states emerge, and the basis of political obligation.

This book assesses the construction of citizenship as an identity, a performance, and a shared rationality.

This book assesses the construction of citizenship as an identity, a performance, and a shared rationality.

Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism studies distributive politics: how parties and governments use material resources to win elections.

Examines the inevitable social and political consequences that will arise from the move to a more sustainable world.

A fresh appraisal of the nature and significance of the democratic left in the Global South.

The Nature of Asian Politics provides an unparalleled, comprehensive first look at the politics of Southeast and Northeast Asia.

A fresh appraisal of the nature and significance of the democratic left in the Global South.

The Nature of Asian Politics provides an unparalleled, comprehensive first look at the politics of Southeast and Northeast Asia.

Examines the inevitable social and political consequences that will arise from the move to a more sustainable world.

The book analyzes popular collective struggles, drawing especially on incomparably rich evidence from Great Britain between 1758 and 1834.

Participatory governance has a long history in India and this book traces historical-intellectual trajectories of participatory governance and how older Western discourses have influenced Indian policymakers.

Participatory governance has a long history in India and this book traces historical-intellectual trajectories of participatory governance and how older Western discourses have influenced Indian policymakers.

Human rights are thought to guarantee pluralism by protecting individual liberty from imposed religious conceptions of virtue.

Human rights are thought to guarantee pluralism by protecting individual liberty from imposed religious conceptions of virtue.

Over the past 40 years, countries throughout the world have similarly adopted human rights related to environmental governance and protection in national constitutions.

Over the past 40 years, countries throughout the world have similarly adopted human rights related to environmental governance and protection in national constitutions.

This book on the differentiated politicisation of European governance provides an overview of research on the growing salience of EU governance, polarisation of opinion and expansion of actors and audiences engaged in monitoring and influencing EU affairs in the national context.

This book on the differentiated politicisation of European governance provides an overview of research on the growing salience of EU governance, polarisation of opinion and expansion of actors and audiences engaged in monitoring and influencing EU affairs in the national context.

Through the last couple of decades, scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly emphasized the importance of political ideas in understanding processes of change and stability in politics and public policy.

Through the last couple of decades, scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly emphasized the importance of political ideas in understanding processes of change and stability in politics and public policy.

Taking the Soviet collapse - the most cataclysmic event of the recent past - as a case study, this text engages students in the exercise of historical analysis, interpretation and explanation.

Taking the Soviet collapse - the most cataclysmic event of the recent past - as a case study, this text engages students in the exercise of historical analysis, interpretation and explanation.

Since the 1980s and the collapse of communist, military, and race-based regimes across the world, the euphoria has given way to the question of how to enhance the viability of democratic constitutional government.